cuspid

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She importuned Fred to notice the blood on the cuspid and to imagine the agony surrounding its expulsion from her mouth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

Virginia, whose hair has grown blonde and her tongue sharp, grudgingly comes to watch her husband lose another cuspid.

From Time Magazine Archive

That small purple ring on the gum of the cuspid in the case first mentioned would eventually have led to the loss of the whole set, if left to work its way unopposed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various

C. V. Rosser, of Atlanta, Georgia, has two small molars and a supernumerary cuspid perfectly united, from crown to root, and these three further united to the roots of a well-formed molar.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

The same is the case upon the opposite side, except that the cuspid has cusps that have fused together, leaving a small projection upon the mesial side and a rudimentary palatine cusp.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.